![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To start, Dyson explores Tupac’s troubled childhood: his mother was a former Black Panther as well as crack addict, which meant that, though he absorbed her revolutionary ideals, he saw the Black Panthers as a practical attempt to “answer racial oppression.”her drug habit made for an impoverished and unstable childhood. that nevertheless continues to speak to millions around the globe.” In four sections (“Childhood Chains,” “Adolescent Aspiration,” “Portraits of an Artist,” and “Bodies and Beliefs”), Dyson attempts to understand, with the help of those who knew Tupac and also of critics like Stanley Crouch, the man who symbolized the best and worst of rap. In a lengthy preface, Dyson details how his interview with rapper Big Tray Dee (the artist broke down in tears after talking about Tupac) became for him a metaphor of the “agony many have over the loss of Tupac’s gift. Noted African-American scholar and Baptist minister Dyson ( I May Not Get There With You, 2000, etc.), in keeping with the current reappraisal of hip-hop and rap, offers provocative insights into the life and milieu of the artist he calls a “ghetto saint.” ![]()
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